Extrait du roman 'Les Misérables' de Victor Hugo (1862), plus précisément du Livre Premier, chapitre 2, où Hugo développe une réflexion sur la nature de la poésie et de l'amour.
"As long as there are eyes reflecting the eyes that look at them; as long as a lip will respond by sighing to the lip that sighs; as long as two souls can merge in a kiss, there will be poetry!"